From Christian missionary publications to the media strategies employed by today s NGOs, this interdisciplinary collection explores the entangled histories of humanitarianism and media.
The smartphone and social media have transformed Africa, allowing people across the continent to share ideas, organise, and participate in politics like never before.
Drawing on the incredible wealth of diversity of languages, cultures and movements in which lesbian feminisms have been articulated, this book confronts the historic devaluation of lesbian-feminist politics within Anglo-American discourse and ignites a transnational and transgenerational discussion regarding the relevance of lesbian feminisms in today's world, a discussion that challenges the view of lesbian feminism as static and essentialist.
Bringing together some of the world s leading scholars, practitioners, and human-rights activists, this groundbreaking volume provides the first systematic analysis of the 2012 2014 Brazilian National Truth Commission.
While social scientists, beginning with Weber, envisioned a secularized world, religion today is forthrightly becoming a defining feature of life all around the globe.
In the United States, egg donation for reproduction and egg donation for research involve the same procedures, the same risks, and the same population of donorsdisadvantaged women at the intersections of race and class.
Although scholars have long studied how Muslims authenticated and transmitted Muhammad's sayings and practices (hadith), the story of how they interpreted and reinterpreted the meanings of hadith over the past millennium has yet to be told.
This widely acclaimed and highly regarded book, used extensively by students, scholars, policymakers, and activists, now appears in a new third edition.
Turkey's mixed human rights record has been highly politicized in the debate surrounding the country's probable ascendance to membership in the European Union.
In 1993, Jose Medelln, an eighteen-year-old Mexican national who lived most of his life in the United States, was arrested for his participation in the gang rape and murder of two girls in Houston, Texas.
This timely special edition, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party, features a new preface by the authors that places the Party in a contemporary political landscape, especially as it relates to Black Lives Matter and other struggles to fight police brutality against black communities.
On February 15, 2003, millions of people around the world demonstrated against the war that the United States, the United Kingdom, and their allies were planning to wage in Iraq.
Anthropologists and ethnographers examine the global garment industry's impact on workers' well-beingThe 2013 collapse of Rana Plaza, an eight-story garment factory in Savar, Bangladesh, killed over a thousand workers and injured hundreds more.
In the past decade, debates over immigrant rights and family rights, and accompanying concerns over birthright citizenship, have taken center stage in popular media and mainstream political debates.
International lawyers and ethicists have long judged wars from the perspective of the state and its actions, developing international humanitarian law by asking such questions as "e;Are the belligerents justified in entering the conflict?
Debating or making speeches, American politicians invariably cite tenets of Christian faitheven as they unfailingly defend the liberal principles of tolerance and religious neutrality that underpin a pluralistic democracy.
Widening global inequalities make it difficult for parents in developing nations to provide for their children, and both mothers and fathers often find that migration in search of higher wages is their only hope.
This study of religion and violence "e;forces us to reexamine some of our most cherished self-images of modern liberal democratic societies"e; (Charles Taylor).
Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, and Chelsea Manning are key figures in the struggles playing out in our democracies over internet use, state secrets, and mass surveillance in the age of terror.
The Changing Terrain of Religious Freedom offers theoretical, historical, and legal perspectives on religious freedom, while examining its meaning as an experience, value, and right.
This book enables worship leaders to skillfully guide spiritual novices, skeptics, and Christian veterans to the grace embedded in the timeless liturgy.
"e;How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America is one of those paradigm-shifting, life-changing texts that has not lost its currency or relevance even after three decades.
Traces social, political, and economic changes among Sahrawi refugees in North AfricaSovereignty in Exile explores sovereignty and state power through the case of a liberation movement that set out to make itself into a state.
In 1948, two years before Cold War tensions resulted in the invasion of South Korea by North Korea that started the Korean War, the first major political confrontation between leftists and rightists occurred on the South Korean island of Cheju, where communist activists disrupted United Nations-sanctioned elections and military personnel were deployed.